Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long before jujitsu had been thought of. Winner of the first bout on record, Sukune is now the God of Japanese wrestlers. In 858, two sons of Emperor Buntoku wrestled for the throne. Koneshito won, instituted sumo as Japan's national sport. Professional wrestling became popular in 1600, has remained so ever since...
...expected that earnest young music students would be on hand for his series, meticulously following each note of the score. Surprise was that ordinary concertgoers would catch the fever, that by last week when the cycle approached its halfway mark the Schnabel recitals had become a popular rage. Seldom have audiences been more attentive. There are pianists who play with more flash than Schnabel, who hammer out louder crescendos, make their pianissimos more consistently haunting. But few have been known to give so much substance to their music, to play with such clarity, such a grasp of structure. The many...
...Goheen, popular head assistant in the equally popular Philosophy A, however, the loyalty and respect transcends ordinary intellectual acceptance and borders on adulation. Or so it seemed to his students in yesterday's section meeting. In speaking of Professor Santayana and the veneration in which Professor Whitehead holds his former colleague's beliefs, Dr. Goheen stated that Professor Whitehead held Santayana to be possibly the greatest philosopher since Plato. Finding occasion later to repeat his remark. Dr. Goheen blithely quoted Professor Whitehead as considering Satayana the greatest Philosopher since Whitehead...
...there are readers of it. Although most of these readers may interpret Oliver's unwillingness to accept the world and its pleasures as evidence of some lack of physical passion, the author makes it clear that for Oliver puritanism did not mean chastity or priggishness. "It is a popular error," says he, ''to suppose that puritanism has anything to do with purity." Nor was it ''mere timidity or fanaticism or calculated hardness: it was a deep and speculative thing: hatred of all shams, scorn of all mummeries, a bitter, merciless pleasure in the hard facts...
...result of an amendment made last month to the Student Council constitution, the Ivy Orator has been withdrawn from popular election, and will be chosen from a competition held by the Class Day Committee and the three Marshals...